[fixed] xine segfaults when trying to play mpegs

TommyB · Last edited by TommyB on Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:06 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

since I upgraded to xine-lib-1.1.1-r3 (and ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216) xine dies with a segfault every time I try to play any kind of MPEG file. That means no normal MPEGs, no DVDs, and no recordings from my DVB-S TV-card (MPEG2 transport streams).
Other kinds of video files, like AVI, still work, though.
This also affects other programs using xine-lib, like Kaffeine.

Anyone else experiencing this, or anyone got a hint?

Here's the output of xine --verbose:

Beetle B. · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 524

Do other video players work?

Did you try a revdep-rebuild?
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TommyB · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject:

Beetle B. · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 524

You could try downgrading version by version till it works.

Xine has had some interesting behavior. For quite a while, after an upgrade, it was refusing to load (would segfault immediately). Finally, someone found out that some of the plugins did not work, and after removing those files, it would work. So I tried the same. Except that for me, the plugins creating the problem were different from his. Now I can't watch asf files with Xine...
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TommyB · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject:

It works!

Apparently, the problem was that I didn't have the "mad" use-flag enabled, so xine was compiled without support for mad. Therefore the ffmpeg-plugin was used to play MPEG audio, but somehow it wasn't able to do that and crashed. This could possibly be a bug in xine's FFmpeg-plugin, because I think FFmpeg _should_ be able to play MPEG audio :wink:

(actually, I spent some time debugging the ffmpeg plugin, and after playing around a bit in the source code, I managed to stop the plugin from crashing, although it still didn't play any sound).
Anyways, installing the latest (~x86) xine-lib-1.1.1-r4 with "mad" use-flag seems to have fixed it. This ebuild contains a warning that you need to enable the "mad" useflag to be able to listen to MP3 audio with xine. Unfortunately, earlier versions didn't include that hint, so I didn't try that earlier. That could have same me some trouble :wink: